#5642
Songun Red Flag-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works· from 2011· Class of North Korean electric locomotives
what is it?
The Sŏngun Red Flag (Korean: 선군붉은기, Sŏngun Pulg'ŭn'gi) class is a group of electric locomotives manufactured by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works for the Korean State Railway.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 15 years ago, in 2011.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 4.2 MW is about 49 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2011
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 4.2 MW
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088493, Wikipedia: Songun Red Flag-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.